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Childhood leukemia and residential magnetic fields: Are pooled analyses more valid than the original studies?

✍ Scribed by J. Mark Elwood

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 2006
Tongue: English
Weight: 120 KB
Volume: 27
Category: Article
ISSN: 0197-8462
DOI: 10.1002/bem.20181

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